Horse-boot.



'PATENTBD OCT. 25, 1904. G. W. PHILLIPS di W. lEL WAY,

HORSE BOOT.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 15, 1904.

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/f/f//W GEORGE IV.' PHILLIPS AND WILLIAM HERBERT WAY, OF CLEVELAND Patented October 25, 1904.

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OHIO.

HORSE-BOOT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,159, dated October 25, 1904.

i Application tiled January l5, 1904:. Serial No. 189,085. (No model.)

To (LIZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. PHILLIPS and IVILLIAM HERBERT WAY, citizens oi' the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Horse-Boots; and we do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to horse-boots; and the invention consists in a boot having the form more particularly of a pad, adapted to be worn by horses on lawns, golf-grounds, and like places where it is desirable that no depression or imprint from the horses foot should be made. To this end the boot is constructed with a Hat pad or tread and means to fasten it upon the foot of the horse, all substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of our new boot complete and ready for use, and Fig. 2 is a central sectional elevation thereoie front to rear.

As thus shown, the boot consists ot' a Hat bottom pad or tread portion A, which in this instance is shown as built up of several layers ot' heavy sole-leather riveted and sewed together, and while sole-leather is used in this instance we may use other material-such as rubber, or leather and rubber together,.or sheet metal with either leather or rubber, or bot h-so that the means for building up a iirm and durable wearing pad or bottom is not limited to any particular material nor to any special form, except that it have a flat bottom or tread and the requisite firmness and wearing quality. The pad thus constructed is designed to be secured upon the foot of the horse by suitable means, and these means are important both to perfectly iix the pad upon the foot, so that it will not shift about, and to make the fastening' comfortable and safe for the horse. To these ends we provide the pad with a metallic toe-piece B, riveted upon the pad or bottom A and provided with an upturned toe-guard across its front, adapted to engage the front of the foot and form a .deiinite stop or abutment for the foot at its front. At its rear the pad is provided with two keepers C in 'position to engage over or upon the rear extremities of the horseshoe and provided each with a flange o or its equivalent at their outer edge to prevent the shoe from working back therein. These keepers are not fixed on the pad until the pad is put upon the horses foot, because horses have different sizes of feet and dierent widths and kinds ot' shoes, so that different conditions have to be met and accommodated by these keepers in different horses and sometimes on the same horse. IVe therefore reserve the keepers for application when the pads are put on, and then they are located and firmly and permanently riveted in place. The down flange o also insures the holding of the toe of the foot or shoe firmly up against the toe guard or projection o at the front.

D represents a preferably metallic tongue hinged upon toe-guard o and adapted to bear upon the front of the horses foot and further secure the boot thereon, and this tongue has a loop CZ formed therein and adapted to thread the strap E through the same, so as to irmly connect the said tongue with the strap which engages with the rear of the pad at each side, as shown. The said strap is secured by rivets or otherwise at one end to a preferably sheetmetal ear G, which is sewed or riveted to the edge of the pad and adapted to be engaged by buckle /a on ear H, iixed to the edge and rear of the pad on the opposite side from ear G. Boths ears G and H show right-angled flanges on their outside, through which they are fastened to the pad, and this also serves to hold up the outer edge ot' the pad which is without the shoe or foot and enlarges the tread all around. By this arrangement of tongue D and strap E, as shown, we supplement the fixed means ot keepers C and toepiece B for securing the horses foot and there is a definite and effective fastening of the pad upon the foot assured. Of course without tongue D and strap E there would be nothing to prevent the foot from being withdrawn from the boot, and the boot can be removed wenn by releasing strap E; but with this drawn tight the boot is confined to its place and the engaging' keepers at the rear make that point secure, while toe-piece B takes all direct for Ward strain upon the shoe.

By this construction and arrangement of parts there'is no possibility of injuring` the horses foot in any way, as only the shoe and the hard exterior' of the hooil are engaged by the fastening means, and the pad can be removed and replaced at will.

Any equivalent of the buckle for fastening strap E may be used, and'leather instead of metal may be used for ears G and H. in any event the pad is understood to be more or less flexible or yielding, but yet rigid enough to cause all parts thereotl to cooperate in su pporting the Weight of the horse.

The strap E might be attached directly to the pad at each end instead of using the intermediate parts or portions Gr and H, which in a practical. sense are a part of the strap and are so regarded in the broader definitions of the invention.

In Fig. Q We show the foot F of the horse and the shoe S thereon, and this shoe has no calks,l but is fashioned after the manner of the usual sunnner shoe. lf calks were used deeper or higher keepers would be needed, and the smith who fits the shoe in place may then provide the size of keeper needed.

lVhat we claim is In horse-boots, a flat laminated pad,'A, having a toe-guard iixed on its front and heelguards C fixed on its rear provided with down ianges c to coniine the shoe, a tongue D hinged to the said toe-guard and provided with a keeper d, side plates G and H having right-angled flanges iXed upon the edges of the said pad and a strap E secured to one of said plates and adapted to thread through keeper d, and a buckle /L ixed to the other of .said plates, substantially as described.

`Witness our hands to the foregoing specilieation this 7th day of January, 1904.

' GEORGE WT. PHLLlPS.

VVILLAM HERBERT NTAY. lritnesses:

R. B. Moses, C. A. SELL. 

